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1812 War with America

By: Belknap Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Belknap Press)

Last Stocked on 10/19/2023

Product Info

Title
1812 War with America
Publisher
Category
Author
Jon Latimer
Publish Year
2007
Pages
656
Dimensions
7x9.5x1.5"
NKG Part #
2148055922
Type
Hardcover

Description

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward.